My own worst enemy

[AtticusFinch]

I consider myself a reasonable player, yet it still seems like once a session I do something incredibly, ridiculously, "why the hell did I do that?" stupid.

Case in point. 50 blinds, 950 chips left, I raise 150 from the CO with AQs. BB, a tight player, pushes (has me covered). It's the first raise he's made all tournament. I call. Why the hell did I do that? He turns over KK. I say, "Yep," and pack my bags to leave. (Then I river an ace, but that's beside the point.)

Ok, it's not the worst blunder ever, but it isn't good. How often do winning players do this sort of thing? (At least I never call UTG with AJo anymore.)

[BillUCF]

I do it all the time. I play mostly small stakes one table tourneys. When I play properly I finish in the money over 80% of the time. Except for the occasional bad beat I always do something stupid to take myself out. That is the major obstacle I must overcome to take it to the next level. It must be a psychological thing.

[willie]

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When I play properly I finish in the money over 80% of the time.

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come come now


and yeah, everyone is guilty of overplaying hands at times, just put it in your memory bank and try not to do the same thing again.

[zaphod]

Good post! I was actually thinking of starting a similar tread myself. I think my biggest leak is calling to much, and then seconds later thinking why did i do that.. Really there should be an warning from the software when you call. A windows prompt asking if you really want to call would be nice.

[AtticusFinch]

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Good post! I was actually thinking of starting a similar tread myself. I think my biggest leak is calling to much, and then seconds later thinking why did i do that.. Really there should be an warning from the software when you call. A windows prompt asking if you really want to call would be nice.

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If I hacked the PP software to do this I'll bet I'd get an immediate 2-3% ROI increase [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[AtticusFinch]

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When I play properly I finish in the money over 80% of the time.

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If that's true then there's no need for you to take it to the next level. You're already doing better than anyone I've ever heard of. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

Hint: Even if this is true, don't expect it to last too long.

[skipperbob]

I invented "own worst enemy" (OWE)...I commit more OWE's when I am tired, drunk, arguing w/wifey, or out of my element [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[betgo]

If I raised from CO witrh AQ and the BB pushed, I would generally call.

If you had a read on the player that he was very tight, maybe you could fold.

[realbad101]

I actually suffer from a variant of this, I start telling myself "well I have pot odds". And call.

Ok great, I just called off one third of my stack because i was a 33% favorite to win 120% of my chips.

[AtticusFinch]

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If I raised from CO witrh AQ and the BB pushed, I would generally call.

If you had a read on the player that he was very tight, maybe you could fold.

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This guy was a total rock.